Saw the Cineteca di Bologna’s beautiful restoration of Roberto Rossellini’s exquisite #India:MatriBhumi. All hail celluloid! And woe …
… it is passing! Mind you, & to be fair, the Cin. di Bol.’s beautiful restored images were restored digitally …
#India: Matri Bhumi. Mr. Jonathan Rosenbaum holds forth: http://bit.ly/1GCXWWX
#India: Matri Bhumi. An amazing amalgam/essay in which Rossellini, already one of film’s greatest humanists …
… starts moving toward becoming film’s greatest rationalist. Here’s that, in full flower: http://bit.ly/1QeoGvP
#India: Matri Bhumi. Here is the simple, profound prospect of a camera and characters that walk, and look, and reflect, and learn …
… “Everything can be explained. Everything. You just have to think about it.” So gentle, & more thrilling than 10 blockbusters.